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By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News Published February 2, 2021 12:14pm Two Aetas who claim they were tortured by the military and falsely charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 have asked the Supreme Court (SC) to allow them to join the petitions challenging the law. Japer Gurung and Junior Ramos through their lawyers filed a petition in intervention, echoing the call of the groups behind the 37 petitions that the SC is taking up in oral arguments on Tuesday afternoon. Gurung and Ramos have a unique position: according to their lawyers, they are the first known individuals charg...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 2) — Two Aetas who claim to be tortured by the military and falsely charged with violating the Anti-Terrorism Act have asked the Supreme Court to allow them to intervene in the petitions seeking to junk the “void and unconstitutional law.” Japer Gurung and Junior Ramos have been detained since August as the military accused them of being among the members of the New People’s Army who fired at a group of soldiers in Barangay Buhawen, San Marcelino, Zambales, resulting in the death of Sgt. Rudil Dilao. Gurung and Ramos, through their la...